DigitalArc provides relatively easy and inexpensive approaches to organizing, collecting and publishing your histories. More than platforms for publishing your stories and processes for capturing your stories, DigitalArc focuses on the people who contribute their stories. Visit the About DigitalArc page to learn more.
Whether your community leads the entire digital archiving initiative, from start to finish, or you partner with local organizations, we provide guidance from planning to publishing your digital archive. Our goal is to provide step-by-step instructions that can be easily tailored for your community needs so you can lead and manage this whole process. The stories you are sharing are yours. You should have options for managing how your stories are shared.
This list is slowly growing as we develop relationship with community and campus partners.
Our team got its start at the Institute for Digital Arts and Humanities at Indiana University Bloomington and is now funded by the Digital Justice Development Grant program at the American Council on Learned Societies.
While the DigitalArc design theme doesn’t need to be customized, you can if you have the expertise.
In 2017, the IDAH@IU team started getting requests to support archiving projects. This repository is the result of a long history of partnerships both in and outside of IDAH, which was sunsetted in 2024. The work here represents partnerships with Jazma Sutton, ImaginX en Movimiento (IXeM) co-founded by Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz; La Casa, the Center for Research on Race, Ethnicity and Society, and the Asian Culture Center at Indiana University Bloomington; and the Remembering Freedom descendant community in Greenville and Longtown, Ohio, which hosts the community-archive project that inspired the initial development of this theme’s predecessor, the Community-Archive template.
A collective storytelling and community archiving toolkit for planning community-archive events and hosting community archives online.
DigitalArc Team, 2024 - 2025. DigitalArc Jekyll Theme by Kalani Craig is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Framework: Foundation 6.